There's an American military base round here which means you can listen to forces radio which means you can listen to Lush Life by Zara Larsson followed by a very serious man telling you that as a military family member, opsec starts at home.

Boyfriend's sister has brought HER partner who we tried to dissuade from hiring a Vespa because even if you think you're confident riding, the roads round here are something else etc and then he explained he learned to drive in Lebanon so we were like...fair point let's get you to the hire place

This is not really on-topic but I was looking for a quick rec on a cheap flashlight the other night and stumbled across r/flashlight, a 275K-member strong community of illumination enthusiasts where people were posting things like "This one is a gateway drug." It's a big, strange world out there.

Heard info from friend of boyfriend's sister that Haaland likes to buy lots of milk in the supermarket in Manchester, or at least was witnessed doing so once.

“Transplant” discourse has rotted people’s brains.

Good grief www.bbc.com/news/live/cp...

Realised just in time that when uni acquaintance asked for recommendations on something from 'derby friends' they meant roller Derby and not location of Derby.

When I'm away, Penny steals things from my room.

I like it when Deschamps hugs them

How do they calculate injury time

Learning important vocab (calcio di punizione, calcio di rigore)

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Oh no! It was my fault for not hiding behind a cushion sufficiently when he took that penalty! I cursed him

Morocco's got a good national anthem

Now to discover if I speak Italian well enough to watch football in it

Hello, Jimmy. I just wanted to stop by and let you know we won, and it was worth it. W/O James Hyde 1917-1944, 132 Squadron RAF. Shot down north of Nijmegen, 25 September 1944.

Ignore the local carpark and focus on the sunset.

Man on a Vespa shouted at me in Italian that I'm dressed like traffic lights.

My thoughts on EES are genuinely not printable.

Yak Hopes They Never Stop Making Grass https://theonion.com/yak-hopes-they-never-stop-making-grass/

Hate how they Ship of Theseused New Tricks. This is the only crew I like.

For The Zoo - Regents Park, by Arnrid Banniza Johnston, 1930.

Found this bracelet I had as a small child and it just feels so 90s to me. I remember feeling really glam about "putting my jewellery on" and it was THIS

consider: shrew wizards

they're replacing Platner with Barnabus Marsh IV, a simple country fisherman whose only tattoo is of something called "the esoteric order of dagon." got a good feeling about this one!

when you're beating the allegations

My mum would be posting through this, she's "posh 19th century man" levels of amateur interest in Egyptology.

The Set animal has been given a red card.

Which of you recommended Broken Veil to me? Was it @beardybanjo.bsky.social - if so thanks whoever it was

If 5 mezze plates is supposed to constitute lunch for two then two mezze plates can certainly constitute lunch for one

Fernando Pessoa! Álvaro de Campos! Ricardo Reis! Alberto Caeiro! Bernardo Soares! Your b-

Got to watch the quarter final on Saturday surrounded by hostile Italians.

Granddad has had some KFC and he thinks it's average.

Hang on...career change incoming

Can't watch any football cos I left reading the work book club book until the night before the club didn't I.

Careful on the gas now Brother Herbert, someone's being flippant with their corndog back there. Artfight revenge on @ascalaphid.com !

Look, it’s actually super simple. Balogun’s red card was suspended under Article 27 which clearly states that FIFA can change the rules when it feels like it. In the case of Belgium’s appeal, this obviously doesn’t apply because FIFA doesn’t feel like it

'You still turn up' is, I think a key part of being a decent person and of having a successful life - and, yes, its very a good thing for kids to learn.

So I actually dreamed that we won against Mexico 3-2 but I disregarded it on waking because I also dreamed @stephenkb.bsky.social told me I was an idiot who'd obviously never seen a football

my theory is that it proves that the US just isn't a football nation at heart - sure you can be happy with a bit of shithousery, or with one of your players getting away with something they shouldn't have got away with, but something like *this* is just on a different level entirely

Favourite cafe has baked a very lovely -looking celebratory England Victoria sponge on a day I cannot get to the cafe. Booo!

Appealing to him being 25 years old like that's super young is really funny in the context of football.

red cards are carceral thinking and bribing fifa is working toward a model of rehabilitation

Disney animal.

Sea lions on a skirt Mules Gilet Jan Leeming

If Norway win it's OK because people with my surname were part of some DNA analysis they did on very old Lancashire families and we were found to be more Viking than average.

Maybe it's not my place to say this but I keep seeing jokes about the England team which hinge on it having an ethnic makeup it hasn't had since like, the 70s.

From my experience watching TV at this time of the morning, this thing is going to be decided by the suburban seats in the Midlands.